ChalkTalk Video: Four Keys to All-Flash Performance from Hybrid Arrays

Watch this ChalkTalk Video with Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump to learn the four steps to getting all-flash performance from a hybrid array.

Hybrid arrays have a clear price advantage over all-flash storage systems because they leverage hard disk drives to drive down the cost per GB. The concept makes sense since not all data needs flash performance all the time. Since most of the data can be delivered from the flash tier, hybrid systems can make the price advantage even more pronounced by using high capacity hard disks instead of low capacity performance hard disks. Hybrid arrays do introduce a level of performance unpredictability that make IT planners nervous. If data does need to be read from the hard disk tier, there will be an obvious performance drop, made even more pronounced if the system uses high capacity hard disks. But with proper design, hybrid systems can deliver predictable all-flash like performance by dramatically reducing and in some cases eliminating the chances of a cache miss. In the above video we walk you through the 4 keys to that proper design:

1. Properly size the flash storage tier
2. Optimize that flash storage tier
3. Pin mission critical applications to the flash tier
4. Fix application code so that it is more cache friendly

To learn more about how to get all-flash performance from a hybrid storage array, join us for our live webinar “How To Make Hybrid Arrays Perform Like All Flash“. In the webinar we will show you exactly how to implement these keys. You will also be able to get your questions answered from our panel of experts. By registering for the webinar you will also have access to over 100 other Storage Switzerland webinars.

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George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.